Pc Neon anyone ?

Post by **RiK** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:19 pm 0

Foozwah wrote:So... Any word on Neon for Mac instead then...?

(I don't actually have a Mac at the moment, just wanted to ask and see if Giles' head would explode. )

Giles is having too much fun with other things, so why not let Gravy port it for us Maccies?

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:27 pm 0

RiK wrote:
Foozwah wrote:So... Any word on Neon for Mac instead then...?

(I don't actually have a Mac at the moment, just wanted to ask and see if Giles' head would explode. )
Giles is having too much fun with other things, so why not let Gravy port it for us Maccies?

It runs in that virtual Windows thingy, don't it?

Post by **Jedburgh** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:30 pm 0

Just get a proper computer, for pity's sake.

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:33 pm 0

gravy wrote:
piku wrote:
PVB wrote:
Kelloggs wrote:Some of us, of course, remember ordering Trip-A-Tron directly from somewhere Mount Pleasant-ish in Tadley, Hants...

*wanders off, whistling nonchalantly*
Amen brother.

Then seeing the manual when it arrived and thinking "Fucking Hell!"
And a very nicely written manual it was too. All 44,000 words of it
The PC one's around 50k

More instances of the word "heavy" in the Trip-A-Tron manual though, I'd bet.

piku · Post by **piku** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:35 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote:Just get a proper computer, for pity's sake.

What? They're doing Neon for Linux?

piku · Post by **piku** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:39 pm 0

kalmar wrote: More instances of the word "heavy" in the Trip-A-Tron manual though, I'd bet.

The word "heavy" occurs 6 times... the word "goat" nine... the word "biscuit" is absent.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:40 pm 0

piku wrote:
PVB wrote: Then seeing the manual when it arrived and thinking "Fucking Hell!"
And a very nicely written manual it was too. All 44,000 words of it

Post by **RiK** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:00 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote:Just get a proper computer, for pity's sake.

Got one thanks, and if runs everything I *need* in an enviromnent which I prefer vastly over windows. Just my humble opinion of course, YMMV.

I really don't see the point in maintaining a hard as nails PC just for one app.

Kelloggs · Post by **Kelloggs** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:03 pm 0

Ah. It's a Zen problem. You simply have yet to meet the One App for which it is worth maintaining a hard-as-nails PC...

Ommmmm.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:03 pm 0

Mac Pro is calling you...

Cheers

Bubba

Post by **RiK** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:09 pm 0

Bubba wrote:Mac Pro is calling you...

Cheers

Bubba

Yup, next spring when Leopards out I'll be having one..

zbandito · Post by **zbandito** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:04 am 0

RiK wrote:Giles is having too much fun with other things, so why not let Gravy port it for us Maccies?

Are you referring to that 'short quickie project' that was supposed to be out a few weeks ago? Honest question; I've been offline for most of a month..

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:00 am 0

First: I don't like Macs at all and I can say it after using Macs quite a lot that I

a) I don't get the feeling at all
b) I prefer Windows lot more
c) I still have to see a Mac working well not costing too much than what I'd pay for it
d) I don't like much nor Apple in general nor their HW, the only two
super smasing things of Apple are iPod Nano and the iSight yet now they
started to loose even that since SkyPe started to work really well and
we'll see what happends with Zune

Second: there are no plans to port anything on Mac nor to let someone
else do it, if there will be a conversion of anything it will be me doing it,
Neon is a personal thing.

There will be maybe something in some future .. in some future .. I don't
think I will be very happy to do it anyway.

Honestly to me Mac is a machine that could very well not exists, it would
not change my life a button (well no, it would simplify it not having
people asking me to do things for Mac

) but I give them they have a better taste in
design and whoever designs non-mac laptops today must have something
terribly wrong in his/her head I still have to see a PC laptop that looks and
feel really nice.

Anyway, we'll see .. time will tell personally before Mac I'd love lot more
to have the possibility to do something for Nintendo, I'd like lot to put
hands on a DS (and do something for it) and/or a Wii using the new controllers.

Now that would be really interesting.

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:03 am 0

zbandito wrote:
RiK wrote:Giles is having too much fun with other things, so why not let Gravy port it for us Maccies?
Are you referring to that 'short quickie project' that was supposed to be out a few weeks ago? Honest question; I've been offline for most of a month..

It was NOT "supposed to be out" (i.e. published) a few weeks ago .. it
was supposed to be finished "a few weeks ago" and I can only say timeline
been perfectly respected and .. and I won't anything else ...

.. hu oh .. ha ha .. har har .. eh eh ... ih ih ..

oops sorry

mamemeister · Post by **mamemeister** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:11 am 0

gilesgoat wrote:4. There are smegload of reasons...............

Well seeing you and Jeff have been hanging around together Giles!!

Seriously though it is fuckin bollocks when some ace bit of code is done and dusted and is delayed due to some white collar knob who knows and doesnt want to know anything about the games industry and who's sole interest is getting the net profits up.

God forbid this poor guy not getting his fat Xmas bonus due to the company not making their budgets.

I know things change but back in the day things really were so much simpler and honest.